Street-indicator.



G. G. BDSON.

STREET INDICATOR.

APPLIOATION FILED 0GT.18, 1910.

Patented Oct. 17,1911.

COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH c0.. WASHINGTON. D. c.

CURTIS G. EDSON, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

STREET-INDICATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1'7, 1911.

Application filed October 18, 1910. Serial No. 587,757.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CURTIS G. EosoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street-Indicators, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct a street indicator in which a drum carries pivotal plates each bearing the name of a street and which are dropped by the motorman or conductor upon the approach of a street.

In the accompanying drawings. Figure 1 is a face elevation in which portions are broken away. Fig. 2 is a Vertical section on dotted line a a Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on dotted line b b Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an elevation of one end of the drum in which a section of the rim is broken away. Fig. 6 is a section on dotted line 0 c Fig. 5.

The frame of the indicator is composed of the end frames 1 and 2 connected by the angling bars 3, bottom 4, and rear brace bars 5. The end frames 1 and 2 each support a horizontally arranged bar 6. A shaft 7 is supported in boxes 8, supported by the bars 6. To this shaft are fixedly connected two drums 9 and 10 each formed with recesses 11 in its periphery. To the outer face of the drum 9 is secured a ring 12 having an overturned edge 13 formed with ratchet teeth 14, and to the outer face of the drum 10 is secured a sectional ring 15 having an overturned edge 16. A series of plates 17 are connected to the rods 18, and the ends of these rods are located. in the recesses 11. These rods are held in place within the recesses 11 by the overturned edges of the rings 12 and 15. By removing one of the sections of the ring 15, the rods with plates attached can be removed and others put in their place. To the upper bars of the end frames are adjustably connected end 'brackets 19 by the bolts 20 and the clamping bars 21. The bolts 20 pass through slots 22 in the brackets. These brackets support a bar 23 against which the plates 17 fall and rest as shown at Fig. 4. To the shaft 7 is secured a bar 24. To the upper end of which is pivoted a. dog 25 which engages the ratchet teeth 14 and to the lower end of this bar is pivotally connected a rod 26. The lower end of this bar 24 is limited in its movements by the stops 27 which will allow the dog 25 to move the distance of one of the ratchet teeth 14. A dog 28 is pivotally supported by one of the end frames and engages the ratchet teeth 14 and serves to prevent the backward rotation of the drum. To the shaft 7 is connected a knob 29 by which the shaft may be rotated.

The front of the frame between the angling bars 3 is open, and a shutter 30 is pivoted within this opening and is one-half the width of the opening, and is capable of being turned down into the position shown at Fig. 4, or to cover the-lower portion of the opening, or turned up to cover the upper portion of the opening. Springs 31 bear against the hinged edge of the shutter and hold it in either position above stated. Knobs 32 are connected to the shutter by which it may be moved.

In use, the indicator is placed in a street car in a position which will enable it being seen, and the rod 26 is extended so that it can be moved by the motorman or conductor of the car. When the rod is moved, the drum will be rotated the distance of one of the ratchet teeth which will drop one of the plates 17. When the shutter 30 is in the position shown at Fig. 1, the street names on one side of the plates 17 can be seen, and when the shutter is in the upper position the street names on the reverse side of the plates can be seen. The principal object in placing street names on both faces of the plates 17, is that the street names on the outgoing trip will be indicated, for instance, when the shutter is dropped, and the street names on the return trip will be indicated when the shutter is raised. Thus the drum can be rotated in the same direction for both trips.

I claim as my invention.

In a street indicator, the combination with a casing, of a drum rotatable therein, plates pivoted to the drum, means for rotating the drum, slotted brackets located in the ends of the casing and longitudinally adjustable therein, securing devices for the brackets my hand in presence of two subscribing Witpassing through the slots, and a restraining nesses. bar secured at its en s to the brackets and disposed longitudinally of the drum in the CURTIS EDSON' 5 path of the plates and longitudinally of said Witnesses:

plates for the length of the same. I A. O. BEHEL,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set E. D. E. N. BEHEL.

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